Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, "Why?")

[Tim]

Allegedly, on or about 21 March 2014, Joe Zeff sent:
> I'm guessing that you mean that Ubuntu is more popular, and has a much
> bigger installed user base.  If so, it's probably because it's
> designed to be very user friendly, doesn't make a big deal about some
> of the software restrictions that Fedora cares about and is, as I like
> to say, designed for "Windows refugees."

I see no point in all Linux OSs trying to be /that/, let Ubuntu fill
that role, and Fedora fill its own.  Nor is their any point in all
Linuxes being the same as each other.  I use Linux, and Fedora Linux,
because I don't want to use Windows.  I don't want anything that's like
it, in behaviour, nor looks.

People seem to harp on about success by being the leader of the bunch,
and only that measure.  Whereas being successful is really being able to
carry on doing what you want to.  If Fedora can be Fedora, and people
want to use it, then it's succeeded.  It's not a commercial product,
don't judge it by commercial measures.

> Candidly, I'm expecting zorin (http://zorin-os.com/) to become a 
> significant part of the Linux world once Microsoft finally drives a 
> stake through XP's heart because it's a fork of Ubuntu designed to
> have a UI that looks as much like XP as possible, so that people can
> pretend they're still using Windows. 

With a name like that, I half expect it to be foisted upon as by
Christopher Walken (shudder)...  Google "Max Zorin," if you don't know
your super evil James Bond villians.

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George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not
a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments.